Harvard Business Review: Building A Real-time Covid-19 Early-warning System
| News Article | Harvard Business Review |
|---|---|
| Written by | Scott Weingarten MD, MPH, consultant to the CEO and Professor of Medicine at Cedars-Sinai, CEO of Stanson Health, Chief Clinical and Innovation Officer at Premier, Inc |
| Jonathan R. Slotkin MD, Vice Chair of Neurosurgery and Associate Chief Medical Informatics Officer at Geisinger, Chief Medical Officer of Contigo Health | |
| Mike Alkire president of Premier, Inc |
Efforts to slow the spread of Covid-19 in the U.S have been stymied by the lack of an effective national surveillance system that can track the emergence of suspected and confirmed new cases in real-time. This is in part because important patient data is trapped in siloed electronic health record systems that don’t communicate well with each other; a new case of suspected Covid-19 in one health system could be invisible to another in the same community, blinding the systems and public health officials to Covid-19 hotspots that may be developing right in front of them.
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